VIRAL IRAN DANCE VIDEO INSPIRES IMITATORS TO DEFY REGIME
(Ray Furlong's and Golnaz Esfandiari's reporting appeared on Radio Liberty, 3/14.) Five Tehran girls were reported to have voiced contrition after posting a dance video that went viral among…
(Ray Furlong's and Golnaz Esfandiari's reporting appeared on Radio Liberty, 3/14.) Five Tehran girls were reported to have voiced contrition after posting a dance video that went viral among…
(Juan A. Ramirez's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/16; via Pam Green' Photo: Donna Murphy, center, as Countess Aurelia in the Encores! production of "Dear World" at the New York Ci…
(Michael Bulley's letter appeared in the Guardian, 3/14; Photo: the Guardian.) We ruin, waste and trivialise human life by ignoring that, writes Michael Bulley Charlotte Higgins is right …
(Kate Laycock's article appeared on DW, 3/8; Photo: DW.) Â Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist, Tetyana Ogarkova, pays tribute to Lesya Ukrainka: the poet, playwright and activist w…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Even the externalizing of a role is greatly influenced by the subconscious. In fact no artificial, theatrical technique can even compare with…
(Jessica Murray's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/8; Photo: Patsy Browne-Hope and Frank Hickman in rehearsals for The Lotus Eaters, the first episode of NT Public Acts' new five-part Ody…
(Kerrie O'Brien's article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 3/6/2023; Photo: Sydney Morning Herald.) What David Hare wants to write about at the moment is pretty simple: the fact that t…
(Rostyslav Khotin's article appeared on Radio Free Europe, 3 /4.) Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had Ukrainian roots and was influenced by Ukrainian motifs. Should he stay or shou…
(Jansson J. Antmann's article appeared in Limelight Magazine, 3/2/2023;  Photo: Dogs of Europe. Photo © Adam Forte, Daylight Breaks.) Exiled from their homeland, the performers of Bela…
(Bethany Brookshire's article appeared in The Washington Post, 3/2; via the Drudge Report; Illustration: How art, music and dance affect your brain and body© George Wylesol for The Was…
(Olena Makarenko's reporting appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 2/2/23.) Following a three-month break after the start of Russia's all-out war, the National Opera of Ukraine resumed its perfo…
(Kelly Burke's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/26/23; Photo: … Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada of Belarus Free Theatre in London. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters.) Belarus Free…
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/17; via Pam Green; Photo: Never an outright monster … Sophie Okonedo, right, and Ben Daniels in Medea. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Med…
(Laurence Maslon's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/13; via Pam Green; Photo:Burt Bacharach, at the piano, arrived in New York as rehearsals began in September 1968. He was joined b…
(Carmel Dagan's article appeared in Variety, 2/15; via Pam Green; Photo: Corbis via Getty Images.) Raquel Welch, the actor who became an icon and sex symbol thanks to films like "One Million…
(Sarah Crompton's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/12/23; Photo:Â 'I think you must do it just by feel': Dada Masilo's interpretation of The Rite of Spring, based on the traditional da…
(via David Gibbs/DARR Publicity, 2/13.) New York, NY " After 30 years as an indispensable pillar of the downtown independent theatre community, New Ohio Theatre will conclude operations at 1…
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/2; via Pam Green; Revelatory … Alex Kingston as Prospero. Photograph: Ikin Yum.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Climat…
(Chris Morris's article appeared in Variety, 2/9; via Pam Green; Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images.) Songwriter, composer, producer and arranger Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in American…
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(Suzanne Cords's article appeared in DW, 1/27; Photo from DW.) Activist Kay Sara portrays Antigone in Milo Rau's modern-day tragedy about the Indigenous people's fight for survival. Ancient …
(Susannah Clapp's article appeared in the Guardian, 1/29; via Pam Green; Photo:A tragedy in which 'bludgeoning comes naturally': Michael Akinsulire, centre, in the title role, and company in…
(Tim Jonze's article appeared in the Guardian, 1/27; via Pam Green; 'I was incredibly grateful to receive [the OBE] in 2009,' wrote Alan Cumming. Photograph: Kristina Bumphrey/REX/Shutter…
(Olivia Salazar-Winpear's, Jennifer Ben Brahim's, Marion Chaval's, and Magali Faure's report appeared on France 24, 1/26.) A century and a half after her birth, Colette remains an icon: a be…
(Silke Wünsch's article appeared in DW, 1/23/23; Photo: Singer Nena in the 1980sImage: United Archives/kpa/picture alliance.) Despite the recording company's initial doubts about the song's…